Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "It seems that only the last line is executed, which is my_gopigo.left()."

A block of code is set as follows:

msg_range.header.frame_id = "distance"msg_range.radiation_type = Range.INFRAREDmsg_range.min_range = 0.02msg_range.max_range = 3.0

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

std_msgs/Header headeruint8 radiation_typefloat32 field_of_viewfloat32 min_range

Any command-line input or output is written ...